Mustafa Kemal Atatürk commissioned the Çankaya Mansion and bought the land in 1921 for 4,500 liras. The Austrian architect Clemens Holzmeister designed the new mansion, which was built from early 1931 to June 1932, about a year and a half. The infobox lists a Traditional Turkish style, and the article says it combines the traditional Turkish house with Western ease of living.
It has two stories above a basement. The entrance story was used for work and for receiving guests, and the upper story as the residence. Materials were imported from Austria, and some interiors were designed at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The Çankaya campus covers 195 hectares, or 480 acres.
Atatürk moved in in 1932, and the building opened as a museum in 1950. In 2014 the president moved to a new complex, and from 2017 it has been the Vice President's residence.
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